Trees, Trees, Trees!

Today we had a great presentation about trees from the Talk About Trees program.

We identified that trees must have a wooden trunk and grow to be tall.

We learned that conifer trees keep seeds in cones and broad leaf trees generally keep seeds in fruit.

We also learned what some of the broad leaves look like and that conifer trees have needles instead of leaves.

Listen to the new tree song we learned.

Tree cookies also give us a lot of information about trees. The rings tell us how old they are, and the distance between the rings show if they had a healthy year or if they needed more of something, like sun, during the growing time that year.

Working with a felt picture we talked about the different things that all trees need and what we might find in the broad leaf tree, and what we might find with a conifer tree. Trees provide a habitat for lots of different animals, and food for animals including people.

Paper is made from trees. We learned about different ways paper are made.

Papyrus is made by weaving and hammering stripped papyrus plant pieces. A paper wasp makes their "paper" nest by chewing wood and spitting it out. The paper that we use is made from paper pulp that is pressed and smashed into paper.

We then were able to make some paper using toilet paper pulp, blue colored paper, water, and glitter.

It was a lot of fun!